Ore to Iron in a Few Seconds: New Chinese Process Will Revolutionise Smelting (hackaday.com)

There's also a new process for Titanium production; for removing the oxygen FWIU:

"Direct production of low-oxygen-concentration titanium from molten titanium" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49085-4

Show me that it can scale then we'll see. So many announcements and promises are based on little tiny demonstrations on a lab bench.